Telephoto lenses for gigapixel images

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A lot of the times with 360˚ panoramic photography, it is all about getting as much resolution as you can in an image. One way to do that is to use a telephoto lens to zoom into the fine details. In this movie, authors Richard Harrington and Ron Pepper give an overview of how to take a 360˚ panoramic image with a telephoto lens on a Gigapan.

- A lot of times, with panoramic photography,…it's all about resolution.…And what we have here, are telephoto lenses.…Ron, why would you use a telephoto lens when shooting a 360?…- Because I want to take more, and more, and more photos.…- Because you wanna spend all day post-processing, right?…- Correct.…No, it's to get an enormous final resolution,…so you can really zoom into the fine details.…- And sometimes for interactive exploration,…this works pretty well.…You actually did the post-production…on a pretty famous gigapixel image,…the president's inauguration, right?…- [Ron] Right, I did some work on that,…when they wanted to take it to print,…because there were, naturally, quite a few stitching errors,…and where people had moved from place to place,…or famously, Aretha Franklin's hat…was on someone else's head.…

So, I was asked by the photographer,…there was David Bergman,…and he got to shoot the inauguration,…and he used one of these gigapan automated systems…to capture the entire scene,…and I understand it took about twenty minutes…

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8/17/2016

Learn how to shoot and develop stunning 360-degree panoramas and interactive virtual tours. Whether you're shooting real estate or outdoor landscapes, the process starts with great raw images. Ron Pepper and Rich Harrington discuss the gear you need to get good 360-degree shots, including camera, lens, and tripod options, and share tips for shooting both standard and HDR images. Then they demonstrate post-processing techniques that use popular applications like Photoshop, Lightroom, and Photomatix Pro, and dedicated stitching software such as PTGui. Once the images are developed, you'll discover how to share interactive images and virtual tours online with services such as Roundme and Spinattic or your own web server.